September 2011
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August 2011
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Life is so busy @-@
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Part IV: The Content
Plenty of bug fixes left, but the slider is up and running. You can see it in this one compared to the other. I haven’t been working on this nearly as much since it goes live next Wednesday instead. Plus Garrick has been using this laptop as he’s finally given up on his MSOE one.
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Part III: It's a real thing!
So, after learning that the website was to be delayed a week last evening I slowed waaaay down on development. Here’s the website in it’s current state. The big white part with a line is actually working - I just haven’t set up the slider yet. Otherwise, I still need to include comments.. And my nav bar breaks as soon as you create a sub nav bar. Here’s a close up on the...
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Part II: The Mocking (of the people)
So after sleep, work and tacos (hooray) I revisited my theme. I know they wanted something more traditional, but <30 hours before our deadline, I finally came up with something cool. Think: Simple logo, white text navigation, big orange-red balls to the wall background, and content in white rounded rectangles. Rounded rectangles <3
Time to start over!
Fuck I might need a lot of caffeine.
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Part I: The Mocking (of the layout)
3.5 hours in to the Tour de’ Website. I figured it would be fun to document how an idea (well in this case, it was lack of idea) becomes a website, as I have to do by Wednesday. I more or less always follow a set of steps
This is waaay fucking too colorful, I admit. It was done so I could pay special attention to div areas and determine their sizing. Getting the header to stay on the...
In 48 hours from now
I will have designed a well laid out and professional looking website from start to finish. This includes writing a theme for a CMS I’m not extremely familiar with and in a language that I have only worked with for about 3 weeks now.
Once I can think of some initial inspiration, I think it’ll be okay.
The problem being, of course, that first step.
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